What about the junks ?" "I haven't seen a man stirring oh board either of them, and they are so quiet that I can't quite make them out." "Couldn't we steal off after dark, sir, and board one of them?
If we took them quite by surprise we might do it." "I am going to try, Herrick," he said quietly, "some time after dark.
But that only means taking one, the other would escape in the alarm." "Or attack us, sir." "Very possibly; but we should have to chance that." He did not say any more, but sat there scanning the far-spreading sea, dotted with the sails of fishing-boats and small junks.

But he had given me plenty to think about, for I was growing learned now in the risks of the warfare we were carrying on, and I could not help wondering what effect it would have upon the men's appetites if they were told of the perilous enterprise in which they would probably be called upon to engage that night.
My musings were interrupted by a rustling sound behind me, and, turning sharply, it was to encounter the smooth, smiling countenance of Ching, who came up looking from one to the other as if asking permission to join us.
"Well," said Mr Brooke quietly, "is dinner ready ?" Ching shook his head, and then said sharply-- "Been thinking 'bout junks, they stop there long time." "Yes; what for?
Are they waiting for men ?" "P'laps; but Ching think they know 'bout other big junk.

Some fliends tell them in the big city.

Say to them, big junk load with silk, tea, dollar.

Go sail soon.